Expecting the unexpected:

"I'm a sucker for good material, and I didn't allow myself to be snobbish about it," Close says. "I kept saying, 'The British do it, why can't we? Look at Helen Mirren and Judi Dench.' "

"I'm a sucker for good material, and I didn't allow myself to be snobbish about it," Close says. "I kept saying, 'The British do it, why can't we? Look at Helen Mirren and Judi Dench.' " (Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times)

"I'm a sucker for good material, and I didn't allow myself to be snobbish about it," Close says. "I kept saying, 'The British do it, why can't we? Look at Helen Mirren and Judi Dench.' "Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times